Holiday Land, also known as Festival of Fun Days, is a 1934 American animated short film made by Screen Gems as the first in their Color Rhapsody series.[2] It also features Screen Gems' current star, Scrappy, in his first color appearance.
| Holiday Land | |
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| Directed by | Sid Marcus (uncredited) |
| Story by | Sid Marcus[1] |
| Produced by | Charles Mintz |
| Music by | Joe DeNat |
| Animation by | Arthur Davis (as Art Davis) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
| Language | English |
The short was nominated at the 1934 Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film but lost to The Tortoise and the Hare.[3][4]
Summary
editScrappy is awakened by his alarm clock, but does not want to get up and go to school. Tossing in his bed, he wishes that "today was a holiday". The wind blows pages off his wall calendar, which produce "holidays" in the forms of their mascots (Father Time, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, a Thanksgiving turkey, a Halloween witch, etc.) Scrappy enjoys various holiday celebrations until he is awakened by his mother's voice. He quickly makes his morning routine, dresses, and eats a hasty breakfast, before diving under his bedclothes to dream again.
Cast
edit- Beatrice Hagen, Dorothy Compton and Mary Moder as Quartet
- Purv Pullen as whistling soloist and various characters
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 137. ISBN 9781476672939.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 67–68. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
- ^ "Holiday Land - IMDb". IMDb.
- ^ "7th Academy Awards Winners | Oscar Legacy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". Oscars.org. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
External links
edit- Holiday Land at IMDb
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